© 2009, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. In the article “The New Habitable Zones” in Sky & Telescope 118(4). Posted on October 2009, Chris Impey writes Life exists because we live in a universe where energy flowing through a system tends to organize that system, into ever more complex and unpredictable forms. (The Second Law of Thermodynamics is not violated; organization happens at the expense of heat, or disorganized …
© 2009, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. Years ago, a junior high school English teacher told us this story: “There was a certain man once. This man was a patriot who loved his country. When his country was in dire straits, he wrote a book detailing the way forward, and this book became a bestseller. The man was elected to government and eventually became the head of his country. …
© 2009, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. In order to come to a proper understanding about what science says about origins, it is essential to understand the nature of science. Yet, in my experience, most people do not understand it. They fail to grasp science’s methodology, its limitations, the relationship between theories and laws, and so on. So let us clarify these matters. Science begins simply with observation, with …
